13.2 Revelation – Stopping the Wind

Stopping the Wind

Who can stop the wind?

Wind is an unseen but very real force. It is constantly moving with both benefits and harm. It helps cleanse the earth, move and dissipate smoke and polution. It drives the rain clouds. It also produces tornadoes, hurricanes, down-gusts and micro-bursts.

Whether you see the stopping of the wind as a form of wrath in itself (by removing the beneficial properties of the wind) or a delay of wrath (by holding back the destructive power), either way, the power and ability to perform such a task in outside of our comprehension.

We can deflect the wind. We can make shelters from the wind. But we can’t hold it back.

But God can. And Revelation 7 says that He will for His purpose. He will send angels to hold back the wind and then another angel to seal 144,000.

Righteous harm will befall the earth. It is inevitable and part of God’s plan of purification for the stain of sin on creation. But God is in control even of the inevitable. He can hold back even the wind for His purposes. We see it in the end times and we see it in our daily lives. All sin is against God and all of us sin. We pile up debts of sin with no way to repay even the smallest. God is not unjust. He does not leave sin unpunished or unreconciled, but He holds back His right or setting the accounts right, so that the ones He love can be drafted to His service.

My Answers:

3.
standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds

4.
a.
destruction, invasion, wrath, power, anger

b.
Patience – protection of the earth, land, sea, trees and people to be sealed

c.
every day I sin and deserve the wrath of God. All sin is against God.